Genetic analysis of Netrin genes in Drosophila: Netrins guide CNS commissural axons and peripheral motor axons

Neuron

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 203-215

  Mitchell, Kevin J ^a   Doyle L , Jennifer ^a   Serafini, Tito ^b   Kennedy, Timothy E ^b   Tessier Lavigne, Marc ^b   Goodman, Corey S ^a   Dickson, Barry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAMININ; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVE FIBER; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0030220346     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80153-1     Document Type: Article

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